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Lightroom 5.7 now available

Lightroom 5.7 is now available as a final release on Adobe.com and through the update mechanism in Lightroom 5. The goal of this release is to provide support for additional camera raw support, lens profile support and address bugs that were introduced in previous releases of Lightroom.

Release Notes

Features

Updates to Synced Collections:

Synced collections now show a more prominent share button at the top of the Toolbar. This allows you to quickly share your synced collection with friends, family, and clients using Lightroom web (http://lightroom.adobe.com).

Comments and likes left on Lightroom web now sync to the Lightroom desktop catalog. Comments and Likes will be shown in the “Comment” panel for synced collections.

Images with comments and likes will display a badge indicating that there are comments and a colored badge to indicate that there are unread comments.

Integrated a utility to import images from Apple Aperture and Apple iPhoto libraries into Lightroom:

Previously available as a separate and downloadable plug-in, this utility has now been integrated into Lightroom 5.7

New Camera Support in Lightroom 5.7

Canon EOS 7D Mark II

Canon PowerShot G7 X

Canon PowerShot SX60 HS

Casio EX-100PRO

Fujifilm X30

Fujifilm X100T

Fujifilm X-T1 Graphite Silver

Leaf Credo 50

Leica D-Lux (Typ 109)

Leica M-P

Leica V-Lux (Typ 114)

Leica X (Typ 113)

Nikon D750

Olympus PEN E-PL7

Olympus STYLUS 1s

Panasonic DMC-CM1

Panasonic DMC-GM1S

Panasonic DMC-GM5

Panasonic DMC-LX100

Pentax K-S1

Pentax QS-1

Samsung NX1

Sony ILCE-5100

Sony ILCE-QX1

Newly supported cameras for Tethered Capture in Lightroom 5.7

Nikon D4S

Nikon D810

New Lens Profile Support in Lightroom 5.7

Mount

Name

Apple

iPhone 6

Apple

iphone 6 Plus

Canon EF

SIGMA 18-300mm F3.5-6.3 DC MACRO OS HSM C014

Canon EF

SIGMA 150-600mm F5-6.3 DG OS HSM S014

Canon EF

Tokina AT-X 116 PRO DX-II 11-16mm f/2.8

Canon EF

Zeiss Otus 1.4/85 ZE

Fujifilm X

Fujifilm X100T

Fujifilm X

HandeVision IBELUX 40mm F0.85

GoPro

Hero

GoPro

Hero4 Black Edition

GoPro

Hero4 Silver Edition

Leica M

Leica SUMMARIT-M 35 mm f/2.4 ASPH

Leica M

Leica SUMMARIT-M 50 mm f/2.4

Leica M

Leica SUMMARIT-M 75 mm f/2.4

Leica M

Leica SUMMARIT-M 90 mm f/2.4

Leica M

SLR Magic 50mm T0.95 Hyperprime Cine Lens

Leica M

Voigtlander VM 12mm F5.6 Ultra Wide Heliar ASPH.

Leica M

Voigtlander VM 15mm F4.5 Super Wide Heliar II ASPH.

Leica M

Voigtlander VM 21mm F1.8 Ultron ASPH.

Leica M

Voigtlander VM 21mm F4 Color Skopar

Leica M

Voigtlander VM 25mm F4 Color Skopar

Leica M

Voigtlander VM 28mm F2 Ultron

Leica M

Voigtlander VM 35mm F1.2 Nokton II ASPH.

Leica M

Voigtlander VM 35mm F1.4 Nokton Classic

Leica M

Voigtlander VM 35mm F2.5 Color Skopar

Leica M

Voigtlander VM 40mm F1.4 Nokton Classic

Leica M

Voigtlander VM 50mm F1.1 Nokton

Leica M

Voigtlander VM 50mm F1.5 Nokton

Leica M

Voigtlander VM 75mm F1.8 Heliar

Leica S

Leica SUMMICRON-S 100 mm f/2 ASPH.

Nikon F

Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 20mm f/1.8G ED

Nikon F

Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 400mm f2.8E FL ED VR

Nikon F

SIGMA 18-300mm F3.5-6.3 DC MACRO OS HSM C014

Nikon F

SIGMA 150-600mm F5-6.3 DG OS HSM S014

Nikon F

Tokina AT-X 116 PRO DX-II 11-16mm f/2.8

Nikon F

Voigtlander SL 40mm F2 Ultron ASPHERICAL

Nikon F

Voigtlander SL 40mm F2 Ultron ASPHERICAL Close-up Lens

Nikon F

Zeiss Otus 1.4/85 ZF.2

Pentax

HD PENTAX-DA 645 28-45mm F4.5 ED AW SR

Pentax

HD PENTAX-DA 16-85mm F3.5-5.6 ED DC WR

Pentax

HD PENTAX-DA 20-40mm F2.8-4 Limited

Sigma

SIGMA 18-300mm F3.5-6.3 DC MACRO OS HSM C014

Sigma

SIGMA 150-600mm F5-6.3 DG OS HSM S014

Sony Alpha

SIGMA 18-300mm F3.5-6.3 DC MACRO OS HSM C014

Sony Alpha

SIGMA 24-105mm F4 DG OS HSM A013

Sony Alpha

Sony DT 18-55mm F3.5-5.6 SAM

Sony Alpha

Sony DT 18-70mm F3.5-5.6

Sony Alpha

Sony DT 55-200mm F4-5.6

Sony Alpha

Sony 75-300mm F4.5-5.6

Sony Alpha

Sony 300mm F2.8 G SSM

Sony Alpha

Sony 500mm F4 G SSM

Sony E

HandeVision IBELUX 40mm F0.85

Sony E

SLR Magic 50mm F0.95 Hyperprime Lens

Sony E

Sony FE 16-35mm F4 ZA OSS

Sony E

Sony FE PZ 28-135mm F4 G OSS

Sony E

Zeiss Loxia Biogon T* 2/35

Sony E

Zeiss Loxia Planar T* 2/50

Bugs Corrected in Lightroom 5.7

The crop overlay displayed an intermediate step when progressing through images in the filmstrip with overlay displayed.

The lens profile for the Canon EF 16-35mm f/4 would not auto-select when using Lens Profile Corrections.

ICC profiles resulted in incorrectly clipped shadows and blacks in Lightroom. Note that this is related to the issue identified here and only occurs on Mac OSX 10.9 and later

Same comment here: please improve x-trans prcessing, means demosaicing/processing of details. Capture one does a far greater job here…and others.
Quite a few pros jumping ships because of this…but we want to stay with lightroom!

Why the biggest company has the most worst results in rendering of the Fuji RAF files???

Because they don’t need to.

Wake up! they will never improve X-Trans support, because they don’t need to. Everyone is stuffing the money in adobes throat, why should the improve something? They earn their money. You should leave adobe and spend your money somewhere else, where your needs are fulfilled.

THAT makes adobe think. when they do not earn money anymore.

money makes the world go round. it is all about money. so stop support adobe.

“- Fixed bug that prevented the Filter Brush cursor from displaying while changing brush size when the Graduated and Radial Filter overlay is turned off.”
How could you fix a bug with Filter Brush if it’s still not available inside of Lightroom?

Can you confirm that 5.7 works properly with Nik plugins on a Windows machine? 5.6 didn’t and I had to spend hours reinstalling 5.5 and the Nik plugins. Reluctant to install 5.7 if I think the same thing will happen again

Don’t upgrade to 5.7 unless you have to. I upgraded and none of my “in” options work including those associated with don’t be Photoshop CS6. I use mac OS X Mavericks. It’s annoying enough that my third-party plug-ins no longer work, but the fact that they haven’t even accommodated their own products is inexcusable, sloppy and unprofessional.

LR does corrections for the Fuji lenses using lens data embedded in the files, same as for m4/3 cameras; it does not use stand alone profiles for the corrections, so there is nothing to see in the drop-downs.

It means there was no release candidate. Adobe Camera Raw was released six weeks ago as a Release Candidate – then last night as a Final version. Lightroom didn’t have the RC so it was marked as a final release.

Why does LR lag so many of the other RAW converters for its handling of X-Trans II shots? I’ve been using LR since 3.x but have been considering replacing it unless Adobe can do *something* to improve the details and sharpness of the Fuji files. If these other small shop apps can do it, what’s keeping Adobe from doing so too? Please, Adobe, give us some fixes to the X-Trans IQ…

The export feature in LR is, for the most part, very good – EXCEPT for the selection of the destination folder. I would like to see that dialog improved so it is more intuitive (it is now very un-intuitive. Try it, you’ll see!) and more consistent with the way most programs handle that dialog. I am also aware of a couple bugs in that feature.

They may be integrated into the raw conversion. If you have a copy of ACR handy, you can run one of your images through ACR and it will tell you explicitly that a lens correction has been applied as part of the raw conversion. Lightroom doesn’t yet have the feature that shows the lens profile has been applied but it applies it nonetheless.

Would it be possible to intergrate a .PNG export option into Lr. I have been dependant on a plugin for this action which is no longer supported/working with iMac/Yosemite. Im having to export to Ps then export as .PNG for web.
Jpeg look utter poop on social media. Png is much sharper.

When sharing a collection with a client/family/friends etc they can’t comment (on the webpage) or like the photo unless they login with an adobe account. Is there another way for them to leave comment?
A client never have time to create an adobe account just for this.

Not looking at lightroom again until the Fujifilm’s XTrans is decently supported; Several products and even free & Open source systems are doing a better job than you guys; Which is a shame as you were ahead of the pack, you’re now badly trailing behind; And once people have left chances are they won’t come back

It’s interesting that the Adobe employees totally ignore all of the comments regarding poor X-Trans RAW support. Certainly you guys have something to say for yourselves? Or are you silently hanging your heads in shame? Response please.

I am on windows 7. It’ll hang up during import. Then a dialog pops up saying “The files are not recognized by the raw format support in Lightroom.” Check for update. It does import some files but not all. Ex. This time I had 103 images to import and 23 were not due to this error. I now have tried to re-install the update but the error still occurs. I tried importing onMac and it work perfectly no error.

Still need the ability to share a catalog/collection of photos between multiple editors, with edits being synced across two Lightrooms. Having Lightroom require a collection to sit on an individuals computer is intuitive to multi-editor workflow as each user has to have their own copy of the originals and no easy way to share photo edits without syncing .xmp files.

Now that more and more camera phones are able to save raw files, how about letting the noise filters go to “11”? With some of these files I need to export as TIFF, import again and then add another 100 in the noise filter to get to usable results…

When cropping an image tight it would be good if the viewpoint would ‘zoom in’ so the cropped area is the extent of the screen. At the moment it’s difficult to make fine adjustments when cropping in tight as the slightest mouse movement has a bit effect. Thanks & keep up the good work!

A general observation about Lightroom –an improvement suggestion
Many users complain about how bloated and slow-running this software has become – we all like features, but does every user need all of them?
Seems to me, Lightroom is a Modular Product – Library, Develop, Slideshow, Books, Print, Web –
I personally never use Books and Slideshow, others may love them, but never use the Web or Print Modules, for example. Would it be possible for Users to ‘turn off’ individual Modules, either before installation, or at least, afterwards? I seem to remember that the old Creative Suite installation package allowed you to choose which products were installed from the DVD. So if you didn’t want Fireworks for example, you unticked a checkbox. This would not only reduce space used on the computer hard drive, and potentially reduce the demands on certain computer resources, if fewer services were needed when LR is running. LR seems to soak up memory the longer one uses it, and the Develop Module still slows noticeably as a session goes on. In a nutshell, would a leaner and fitter Lightroom, made possible by selective Module installation not help?

“Would it be possible for Users to ‘turn off’ individual Modules, either before installation, or at least, afterwards?”

Selective installation is not possible but you can turn them off in the menu. Right click on “Book” and take away the check mark. The files remain on your computer but you won’t be seeing the options on your screen all the time nor hitting it by accident.

Lean and Fit are not two words Adobe know. 20 years of using their products and still they don’t code for lean and fit.

But, now that memory is cheap, adding 8-16GB RAM to a machine does help.
Personally, I also went as far as putting my catalogue/previews on an SSD drrive too.
A 128GB SSD drive is as cheap as 8GB ram.
Unlike many users who play with small images, I work on 300-500 megapixel (the largest size LR supports) images, never go beyond about 8GB system RAM used in LR, and LR is reasonably responsive even with multiple grads, brushes etc…

If you are working on a laptop and can’t upgrade, well, that is what you get for using a laptop!

The 5.7 upgrade completely screwed up LR. I can’t edit in Elements because LR can no longer prepare the file, images won’t load – complete disaster – can’t believe more people haven’t had problems on their macs.

Hi,
Does anyone know why LR5.7 does not include tethering capability for the Nikon D750? Its RAW files are now accepted, but I can’t tether with it which is a major disadvantage. Tethering is now available for pretty much every other Nikon slr, it seems very odd?

D750 raw files were first supported on 11/18/14. Tethering support normally lags behind Raw support by one LR dot release (sometimes two). Most of this is due to the timing of the inclusion of the camera into the Nikon SDK which Lightroom relies upon to integrate to tethering. The D750 was included in the Nikon SDK on 11/12/2014 – too late to do the engineering to get it into 5.7.

Thanks Rikk, much appreciated. I know you may not have an answer as such, but do you think it may be a case of waiting a few weeks for a further update 5.8, or more like several months, and maybe for LR6?

Love the program yet I was forced into using Capture One PRO for better X-Trans rendering. I vastly prefer the Lightroom workflow and would switch back in a second if the demosaic algorithm is improved. Version 6? Please become n1 again 🙂

Please improve the Fuji X trans RAW support, currently it sucks.
I dumped Canon to go with Fuji….I will dump Lightroom too if I need to….. but I love Lightroom so please support the Fuji RAW files properly.

I will be ditching LR as my photo management and digital darkroom solution if Adobe doesn’t work to improve its Fuji X-Trans support. The fuji X-Trans has been out for several years now and has published its specs. There is no excuse for this, especially if a single guy can do it as is the case for Iridient.

I have been using Lightroom for a long time, but the lack of good Fujifilm X-trans processing has made me look at other software. I don’t want to move away from LR, but really guys, it has been a couple of years, and LR is still way behind on getting good quality out of a great set of Fuji cameras!

I am a monthly subscriber mostly to be able to sync LR mobile for my ipad. I am using maverics. And can not believe that AGAIN there are sync issues. I contacted support with LR 5.6 and had to erase my sync-ed files and rebuild them again and re-upload to my mobile devices entirely. And now, Syncing issues again with 5.7, files wouldnt sync even in the web version. I am considering seriously to cancel my monthly subscription, honestly this is not professional 🙁

I can’t import FUJIFILM X30 RAW files (RAF) in to Lightroom v5.7. I’ve downloaded the .dmg file for Lightroom several times, and each time, before the install, deleted the existing Lightroom preferences file. Other RAW files .NEF, .ORF, RW2 fine as was with Lightroom v5.6.
I can work with the FUJIFILM X30 RAW files with no trouble via Photoshop CS6 and Camera Raw 8.7.
Any suggestions regarding Lightroom import problem would be appreciated.

After the first failed attempt, I made a fresh folder, and put just one .RAF file in it. When I drag it into the library window, it shows in the import window. Import files at their current location with the progress bar underneath comes on, turns white for about 1/8th. Then nothing more happens. When I cancel the import the “no photos or videos were found to import” message comes on. Only happens with .RAF files.
Thanks.

Well, I’ve downloaded and installed it for the fourth time, and now it is working. I have no idea how it happened, because I haven’t changed any settings. In fact all files including Nikon and Panasonic seem to be importing much faster. Hope it continues 🙂

Yep, I too must just on the bandwagon. So many of us have waited patiently for improved Fuji X-Trans raw processing. Capture One, PhotoNinja, two guys in a garage are way ahead. We need Lightroom to be as good.

I received my Nikon D750 and was disappointed LR did not yet support the files. The same day I received the D750 the final release of LR 5.7 was announced. Great timing by me or Adobe! Thanks for the prompt support and the sharing capability for collections in the new version.

Olympus generally bakes the lens correction data into the raw image files, so there is no need for an external profile. Lightroom does not indicate this in the lens profile panel, though it is possible that may change in a future release. If you were to view the image in the Adobe Camera Raw plugin 8.x you would see a bit of information on the lens correction panel about the built-in profile.

After installing Lightroom 5.7. I tried to use tethering with my new Canon 7D MK II. The program shows the little tethering bar that constantly goes from no camera to mine, back and forth. It never fully recognizes my camera and is therefore useless for tethering. Is it a bug? I have tried it on both my desktop and laptop. Same problem. I do hope its fixed soon. Both computers are running Windows 7. (my preferred OS) My desktop is 64 bit and laptop is 32 bit. Desktop has 16 gig ram. Laptop not so much.

Since moving from 5.6 to 5.7 I have lost the ability to use the gradient filters. Now when I use it and drag it over the screen I cannot see the area it affects. I used to see lines across the picture that I could drag and position before applying the settings. But now I see nothing and can no longer use it.

Please sort this out ASAP. Gradient filters are important to my workflow and without them I’m screwed.

I am extremely disappointed by all oft export artifacts that are showing up with large batch exports. I will export up to 10k frames+ at a time for LRTimelapse and wait days for it to finish and the final product has rendering error artifacts randomly through out the frame set. And it seems as if my exports are slower than ever. I have a -i7 5960x and 32gb of memory and the export process is literally taking days. Too do I need to upgrade again bot to Xeon with ECC memory to avail this BS that I have never had to deal with in the past. WTF Adobe.

I posted this earlier on New Year’s Day. Has anyone experienced a failure by the “File Handling” feature in LR 5.7 to appear, when in the Import module?
I was in the process of making adjustments to the preview settings in File Handling today when the heading simply went away. It did not minimize. There’s no longer anything in the module TO minimize. It has simply vanished. The entire portion of this part of the module is gone, such that now when I’m in the Import module the top option has defaulted to the “File Renaming” feature. I cannot scroll “up” to find the File Handling option.
Anyone who knows of this malady please respond.

It would be great if Lightroom 6 supported Sigma files from the Merrills -not supporting the RAW files is a real pain within a workflow centred on Lightroom, and something my own students have asked about in the past. Is there a form we can use to request features for inclusion in coming versions?

I’m having trouble trying to build a time-lapse movie in the Lightroom 5.7 slideshow module. I have the Craft & Vision time-lapse template installed, but when I go to preview or run the slideshow it only plays less than half of the 200 slides in my sequence, then the screen goes blank – even though LR is still moving through the rest of the slides. From searches on the internet it seems that 5.7 has been changed from previous versions in some way and that it can no longer render T-L slides. Is this so? If so, can you please tell me when this feature will be available again? Alternatively, is there a workaround I can use? Thank you.

What a good laugh ! One guy in a garage provides great support for Fuji RAW files and the whole Adobe Lightroom’s team can’t make a decent job ? OK.
I’d like to know who is paying Adobe to kill Fuji and/or the X-Trans technology.

If Lightroom 6 does not improve X Trans quality to at least the level of Iridient and Capture One, I will abandon Adobe and go back to Phase One, Capture One. I have used Lightroom since its first release and love the UI, but the level of quality for the Fuji X-trans sensor is currently unacceptable. Even Adobe must feel embarrassed that a couple of guys in a Garage (Iridient) can do a much better job at processing X-trans files than Adobe. What the heck is going on? Aree you really content with being in last place when it comes to processing X-trans files?
Before Lightroom I used Capture One, and will purchase Capture One Pro 8 if no improvements are included in Lightroom 8.
MikeJ

Is it possible to predict an update that allows nikon 750d tethered shooting??
I think this is a major fail for lightroom, this camera has already get out in September of 2014 and still has no tethered support in LR wich will put many professional looking for alternative software.

Can someone tell me what I’m doing wrong here. I have a D4s, I’m on LR 5.7.1 (64-bit) and connecting with a tether tools cable. I can get the program to start the tethering process, however, I am only able to select a folder on my computer as the destination. My photos do not save to the CF card in camera and my shot count only shows 59 shots available. I can’t imagine that you wouldn’t be able to save to the desktop folder as well as a CF card so clearly I’m missing something. Any advice?

The Nikon D7200 requires Lightroom 6.0 or higher to read the raw files.

Lightroom 5.7.1 was the last version of the Lightroom 5.x series. For support with newer cameras on Lightroom 5.x, you would need to use the free Adobe DNG Converter to convert your Nikon NEF files to DNG which can be read by older versions of Lightroom and Adobe Camera Raw.

Otherwise you can upgrade Lightroom to 6.x or subscribe to Lightroom CC 2015 via the Creative Cloud Photographer’s program to get native D7200 NEF support.

The Nikon D7200 requires Lightroom 6.0 or higher to read the raw files.

Lightroom 5.7.1 was the last version of the Lightroom 5.x series. For support with newer cameras on Lightroom 5.x, you would need to use the free Adobe DNG Converter to convert your Nikon NEF files to DNG which can be read by older versions of Lightroom and Adobe Camera Raw.

Otherwise you can upgrade Lightroom to 6.x or subscribe to Lightroom CC 2015 via the Creative Cloud Photographer’s program to get native D7200 NEF support.

Fuji made the X trans and RAF files, why is everyone moaning to Adobe?? Fuji have a lot to answer for, they put out cameras with so many issues and yet all its customers expect Adobe to clean up the mess. I love my old X100 but anything after that makes all you X trans buyers nothing more than beta testers for a company that doesn’t even respond to your testing. I’m done with X Trans, gone back to Nikon bang bang bang I get the shot every time in any light and the files edit just fine.

Hi
when will LR finally support tethering for the Canon EOS 70D ? The camera came out in July 2013 (almost 2 years ago) The CANON SDK supports the camera since ages as well. Look at the competition: Caprure one supports tethering for the 70D since V7.2 (released 1 year ago!). Why on earth does it take Adobe to catch up such a longtime? I would accept a certain delay after a new camera comes out but not almost 2 years.
Uli

I downloaded the latest 5.7 version of lightroom and ever since NONE of my Developing Tools are functioning?! The main editing screen pulls up the picture but as soon as you choose a tool it goes gray. I can make adjustments to the image but it can only be seen on the photo strip on the bottom. I’ve completely uninstalled/reinstalled the program 3 times…deleted the catalog, checked for virus, even cleared out the preferences as suggested by several people above, etc and nothing is fixing my laptop. I installed it on my PC and the program works great however I need it on my laptop. Both computer are are operating on Windows 8….any ideas to help?